Diana: after reading your first email (today), I can see why Bruno is confused. There is a Cho Cho in a cup with a stick and also a Cho Cho Bar. Both are talked about in the first message and also throughout the message board. That is the reason for the confusion. I probably read the first message back when, but not since. People should be clear about which they are writing about. My research was on the Cho Cho in the cup, if you refer to my previous messages.

When I first brought up the discussion about Cho Cho's, I was talking about the ones in the cup with a stick in it, not the bar. Hope I have cleared this up for you and everyone else. Sorry for the confusion!

Back in the late 50's I used to spend some weeks in the summers with my sister and her family in Utica, NY There is where I found the Cho Cho ice cream cups with the stick. I never noticed the bar, perhaps the store didn't carry them. I never forgot that rich malted taste. Many decades later, on one of my sister and her husband's visits to my house. I tried to duplicate that treat. As I recall, I took regular chocolate ice cream partially melted and added malted milk powder that I mixed with cream, after it was blended well, I refroze it. As I recall the Cho Cho ice cream didn't have a lot of chocolate in it, it was pretty pale. My brother in law agreed with me that I had come very close to the original flavor. I don't believe I measured any of the ingrediants just went by taste...so have at it and good luck. Amazing how a dairy treat can make such an impact on so many people......

>quote< diana 05-19-2012 @ 1:42PM Dear Bruno, I am so sorry for not thanking Rich Creator for his recipe for Cho Cho's. I am thanking him now (Thank you Rich so very much!!), and also I want to thank you Bruno for bringing this to my attention. Please except my apology. >unquote<

Never in my life have I seen such a blatant disingenous apology which reveals the true character of the person.

That is an assumption on your part. Diana may have mispelled the word except/accept. Whatever she meant, I agree with her.

I have included on this site all of the research I have done and purchases that I have made to find the "true cho cho in a cup." I don't need a thank you. I appreciate Diana creating this site for us to share. Diana, please accept my thanks, I should have done it much sooner.

I have a problem with Bruno and Rich Creator's attitudes. They shine a dark cloud on something that was meant to be enjoyable to research and remember the past.

Diana, Please don't get discouraged or even consider closing down this site. You are making too many people happy. As Abe Lincoln said,You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you cant please all of the people all of the time. You are obviously pleasing the majority of the cho cho cup people most of the time.

I really can't figure out why it is so important to be recognized for a contribution to this site OR people choosing to continue to look further until they are content they have found it. FREEDOM IS A GREAT THING.

Hi...My mother always thought that a Wendy's Frosty was just like the Cho Cho's of her youth. Here is a link to a recipe for the Frosty...maybe try making it and then freezing it into the shape you want.

I just discovered this site when I was searching for the Cho-Cho Ice Cream that I remember from childhood in San Francisco. On Saturday afternoons, I would go down to my grandmother's house, two blocks away, to watch Bar-Seven Theater. We didn't have a TV. My dad thought that it was a "passing fancy." That turned out to be a good thing; when we finally got one, we had the biggest screen on our block. Sorry for digressing a bit. My grandmother would give me money to go to the corner market to buy ice cream. I always bought Cho-Chos in the cup with the stick. After 60+ years, I can still remember the feeling of rolling the cup in my palms to loosen the ice cream, and I can still remember that wonderful taste. I have enjoyed reading other people's memories of such a unique ice cream. Thanks, Sue

According to the records of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Cho Cho ice cream novelties were introduced by the Carnation Company June 6, 1939. The trademark was reassigned to the Popsicle Company in 1982. The brand/product expired in 2003. Original record here:

"America's gone Cho-Cho! Boys, girls, men, women...millions thrilled by big feast of cooling, delicious, nourishing. Chocolate Malted ice Cream for a Nickel! Yes, everywhere the great news is spreading about CHO-CHO-the brand-new "taste thrill way" to eat malted ice cream! And no wonder...for you've never had anything like CHO-CHO before! It's a big, nourishing feast of delicious ice cream, chock full of theat rich, chocolate malted flavor everybody loves. You, too, will be wild about CHO-CHO! Just think! For only a nickle you can get this big, tasty treat--on a stick--of delicious ice cream chock full of rich chocolate malted flavor. Look! it's Easy to Eat CHO-CHO. Here's all you do. Hurry to your favorite ice cream dealer's and get a CHO-CHO now. Then, one!--roll the cup between your hands. Two!--press bottoms of cup with your thumb. There!--pull out with the stick. And you're all set to enjoy the grandest-tasting ice cream sensation in years. Join the crowds that are flocking to your ice cream dealer's now. Hear them cheer this new way to eat chocolate malted ice cream. And discover an exciting new taste thrill--with CHO-CHO! See special, money- saving introductory coupon. CHO-CHO Company, Milwaukeee, Wisconsin." ---Display ad, Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1940 (p. G3) [NOTE: This ad contains illustrations of the product and copy of the coupon.]

Many people recall this particular frozen treat with fondness. Some memories here.